Alexander Barzilov (Mechanical Engineering) received a $400,000 award from Nuclear Regulatory Commission for the nuclear workforce fellowship program. Two Ph.D. students and two M.S. students will be supported by the program.

Ph.D. candidate Shangjia Zhang (Physics and Astronomy) has been selected as a 2024 NASA Hubble Fellow. The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program supports promising postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research that contributes to NASA Astrophysics, using theory, observation, experimentation, or instrument development.  Zhang's work was…

Zhange Feng (Chemistry and Biochemistry) has been awarded $2.1 M from the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management to develop a comprehensive training system to prepare a large number of collegiate students as an emerging workforce for soil and groundwater remediation. It includes an enhanced curriculum through hands-on…

Hyelin (Lina) Kim's (Hospitality) article, "Measuring Virtual Event Quality (VEQual): Scale Development and Validation," was recently published in the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research. This study aims to develop and validate a psychometrically sound and managerially useful instrument for measuring VEQual. This study allows both…

Andrew Lugg (Political Science) recently published an article titled, "Why is there no investor-state dispute settlement in RCEP? Bargaining and contestation in the investment regime," in the journal Business and Politics. Available here: Open Access. The article seeks to understand why investor state dispute settlement, which was…

Tyler D. Parry (African American and African Diaspora Studies; Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies) was interviewed by journalist Corey Levitan for his article, "Lost Vegas: 1969 West Las Vegas Riots," published on the website casino.org. He provided largely unknown information about this uprising against police brutality on the Historic…

Kavita Batra (Medicine) was recently invited to become a member of the Global Health Educators Community (GHECo), which is a part of the new Consortium of Universities for Global Health (CUGH). The GHECo provides professional development and networking opportunities for professors who teach global health courses, design curricula and experiential…

An article, "Cops or Coaches? The Statutory Role of Juvenile Probation Officers in a Transformative Age," co-authored by Justin Iverson (Law) and David Tanenhaus (Law/History) has been published in the Michigan State Law Review. 

Louisa Messenger (Environmental and Occupational Health) co-published an article on "Chagas disease in immunocompromised patients" in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews.  As Chagas disease remains prevalent in the Americas, it is important that healthcare professionals and researchers are aware of the screening, diagnosis, monitoring…